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Author Christie, Jane L., author.

Title Negotiating gendered discourses : Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner / Jane L. Christie.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 222 pages).
nat New Zealanders
gdr Women
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Latin American gender and sexualities
Latin American gender and sexualities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Women as political subjects and agents in Chile and Argentina -- Human rights icons : feminized political leadership frames -- Economic policy claims -- Feminist policy claims -- Appendix.
Summary It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the "first women" to successfully run for the highest office in these countries, they were presented as the new faces of democracy. These observers argued that gender was not a determining factor in their electoral success, but the focus on this "first women" frame did generate heavily gendered criticisms of these two candidates. Negotiating Gendered Discourses addresses these views by asking how the gender factor is negotiated when women from the Southern Cone of Latin America run for high political office. In particular, Jane L. Christie examines how Bachelet and Fernández positioned themselves in relation to the numerous women-led social movements, and in doing so, reveals points of intersection between these contemporary political discourses and existing sources of female authority when negotiating complicated ideological debates about human rights, the economy, and women's rights.
Biography Jane L. Christie is a visiting academic with Politics and International Relations, the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Subject Bachelet, Michelle, 1951-
Bachelet, Michelle, 1951-
Fernández de Kirchner, Cristina.
Fernández de Kirchner, Cristina.
Women presidents -- Chile -- Biography.
Women presidents.
Chile.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women presidents -- Argentina -- Biography.
Argentina.
Women -- Political activity -- Chile.
Women -- Political activity.
Women -- Political activity -- Argentina.
Human rights -- Chile.
Human rights.
Human rights -- Argentina.
Chile -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1988-
Subject Argentina -- Politics and government -- 2002-
Chronological Term 2002-
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference.
Chronological Term Since 1988
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Human rights.
Other Form: Print version: Christie, Jane L. Negotiating gendered discourses. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016] 9781498512343 (DLC) 2015034023 (OCoLC)934588484
ISBN 9781498512350 electronic book
1498512356 electronic book
9781498512343 cloth ; alkaline paper
1498512348 cloth ; alkaline paper